The Coba Archaeological Site is one of the most amazing Maya ruins you will find in the Yucatan Peninsula. This is a place you should visit when taking a vacation in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Coba's urban sprawl covered during its hey day (750 AD) a total area of about 40 square miles and is one of the Maya cities built in the Peten style characteristic of the late Classic period. The city is formed by a group of 5 clusters of buildings or complexes with a web of roads and causeways that interconnected them and facilitated exchange of goods and services with the rest of the Yucatan Peninsula.
The most important clusters are: The Coba cluster, including the Church Pyramid and the recently restored Nohoch Mul cluster, which means ''big mound.'' There are thought to be over 6,000 structures buried in the dense jungle in and around Coba, making this archeological site the classic example of Maya supremacy during the first millennium in Mesoamerica.
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